American Biographers of Napoleon&nbsp-&nbspVance, USA, 07/02/2009 19:40:18 For a paer on "Crafting the Life of Napoleon: The Workshop of American Authors since 1900," I'm focusing on the methods of those writing brief or full biographies (but not campaign histories or specialized studies). I'm studying the works of Thomas Watson (1902), James Morgan (1915), Walter Geer (1921, etc.),Albert Guerard, 1956,and recent authors like Robert Asprey, Alan Schom, and J. David Markham. "Age of Napoleon" works like J. Christopher Herold 1963 and Will and Ariel Durant 1975 deserve mention), and there are N and the French Revolution books that can often read like a biography, such as Charles Warwick (1910). It's difficult to ignore Theodore Dodge's four volumes (1904), but it's only on his military career. Anyone have favorite American authors since 1900 whose method or style of presenting N's life deserves mention?

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspRe: Napoleon's American Biographers&nbsp-&nbspVance, USA, 03/03/2009 22:44:47 &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Yes, Vincent Cronin is one of my favorites too; I used his book and Ludwig's as texts in a college class I once taught on Napoleon. Cronin, however, was born in Wales and I'm fairly certain that he spent his life in England, so I did not have him on my list.